The One-Body Problem

Bryan Johnson has spent millions on his twin quests for eternal life and a younger penis. And that's just the stuff you've read about. Other aspects of his mortal life tell a tale far more strange

- By Rachel Dodes

YOU’VE PROBABLY READ ABOUT BRYAN JOHNSON, THE TECH ENTREPRENEUR WHO’S TRYING TO LIVE FOREVER.

After making a killing (about $400 million) in the payments processing business in Chicago, Johnson has devoted himself to becoming a “rejuvenation athlete” in Los Angeles, spending his waking hours tending to his body and his sleeping hours tracking everything from his heart rate variability to the duration and hardness of his erections. He calls this endeavor Project Blueprint.

Johnson doesn’t have a publicist. Yet his quest for immortality, which is overseen by a rotating staff of health care professionals and costs him an estimated $2 million a year, has been extraordinarily well documented in the press—fueled by our fascination with the “quantified self ” movement, atomized into millions of social media posts and swept up into the magic flywheel of clickbait journalism. In May, Bloomberg Businessweek broke the news about Johnson enlisting his 17-year-old son to be his “blood boy” and engaging in a three-way plasma swap with him and his 70-year-old father. A September Time profile entitled “The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever” explained how Johnson is “turning his whole body over to an anti-aging algorithm.” His lead doctor, Oliver Zolman, was profiled in Fortune; a dissection of his 1,977-calorie diet appeared in the Daily Mail; the New